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Search is on for Antarctic UAS

20th October 2015 - 15:23 GMT | by Richard Thomas in London

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The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is on the hunt for a new UAC capability under a project dubbed Polar 2015.

Unmanned systems, including UUV platforms, have brought a range of new capabilities to Antarctic operations and are thought of as an enabling technology by those within the BAS.

The BAS is currently undertaking trials with a range of UAS platforms, including fixed-wing and commercial rotorcraft. The current uses of such systems include observation, inspection and route-finding through difficult terrain for both land and sea based assets.

On 20 October the organisation issued a request for interest (RoI) from interested industry

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